Registration and coffee
13 May 2027, 08:00 – 09:00 · Main Stage · Talk (30 min)
Sessions
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The Build Cache Is Not Your Problem
13 May 2027, 10:00 – 10:30 · Room 2A · Platform & Infra · Talk (30 min)
Everyone reaches for a remote build cache first, and for most teams it is the third-best thing they could do. This talk walks through where CI time actually goes in four real… Show more
Everyone reaches for a remote build cache first, and for most teams it is the third-best thing they could do. This talk walks through where CI time actually goes in four real repositories, what we measured, and the two cheaper interventions that beat caching in three of them.
Dana Kowalski — Engineering Manager, Substrate
Agents That Ship: Running Code-Writing Models in Production
13 May 2027, 10:00 – 10:30 · Room 2B · AI Engineering · Talk (30 min)
Eighteen months of running code-generating agents against a production codebase, with the guardrails that survived and the ones we deleted. Includes the evaluation harness, the… Show more
Eighteen months of running code-generating agents against a production codebase, with the guardrails that survived and the ones we deleted. Includes the evaluation harness, the review policy, and the two incidents that taught us the most.
Marcus Okafor — Staff Developer Advocate, Cloudreach Labs
Type-Checking a Million Lines in Under a Second
13 May 2027, 11:00 – 11:30 · Room 2A · Developer Experience · Talk (30 min)
Incremental type-checking is a graph problem wearing a compiler costume. We rebuilt ours around a demand-driven query engine and cut editor latency from 3 seconds to 40… Show more
Incremental type-checking is a graph problem wearing a compiler costume. We rebuilt ours around a demand-driven query engine and cut editor latency from 3 seconds to 40 milliseconds. This is the architecture, the wrong turns, and the benchmarks.
Ravi Menon — Staff Engineer, Paperclip
Lunch
13 May 2027, 12:30 – 13:30 · Main Stage · Talk (30 min)
Platform Engineering Without the Platform Team
13 May 2027, 14:00 – 14:30 · Room 2A · Platform & Infra · Talk (30 min)
Northbeam supports 400 engineers with a platform group of five. This is how we chose what to own, what to buy, and what to deliberately leave to the teams — and the golden-path… Show more
Northbeam supports 400 engineers with a platform group of five. This is how we chose what to own, what to buy, and what to deliberately leave to the teams — and the golden-path metrics we use to tell whether it is working.
Elena Fischer — Head of Platform, Northbeam
Your Kubernetes Estate Should Be Boring
13 May 2027, 15:00 – 15:10 · Room 2B · Platform & Infra · Lightning Talk (10 min)
Ten minutes on the operational habits that make a large cluster estate uneventful: fewer knobs, ruthless defaults, and a change calendar nobody is allowed to override quietly.
Tom Bianchi — SRE Lead, Quanta
How We Cut Cold Starts to 40ms
Sponsored content — Ferro Labs14 May 2027, 10:00 – 10:20 · Room 2B · Platform & Infra · Sponsor Session (20 min)
Ferro Labs runs a large edge fleet. This session walks through the measurements behind our cold-start work — what we tried, what did not help, and the two changes that did.